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Victorian teachers may be about to push for more pupil-free days.

Parents shell out billions as back-to-school costs increase

Rising expenses and tech demands leave families scrambling for ways to save on uniform and equipment costs ahead of the new school year.

  • Rachael Ward

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Frankenstein, Stranger Things and Rear Window are among the texts Year 12 students can study from

Hamlet is out, Stranger Things and Four Corners to stay: Year 12 English text choices revealed

The list of texts Year 12 English students are allowed to study include ABC documentaries, Ancient Greek plays, and a George Clooney historical thriller.

  • Felicity Caldwell
**AFR FIRST USE** Generic gen23 exam test high school certificate education students testing hsc. Photographed at Northern Beaches Secondary College Freshwater Snr Campus in Sydney on June 20, 2024. Photo: Dominic Lorrimer

Better oversight of HSC top achievers’ private coaching needed

Sydney’s estimated multimillion-dollar private tutoring industry is continuing to grow but a lack of regulation means its impact on the education system is difficult to assess. 

  • The Herald's View
Kambala in Rose Bay is among the nation’s most expensive schools and charges in excess of $50,000 for year 9.

Sydney private school fees eclipse $51,000 for year 12

A survey of 30 independent schools shows fee increases of an average of 7 per cent as staffing costs skyrocket.

  • Lucy Carroll
Cassandra Renfrey’s son Connor is enrolled at a school for disengaged kids which is having to turn students away.

The school of last resort saved Cassandra’s son. Lack of space means others are turned away

The Pavilion School in Epping was a lifeline for teen Connor Renfrey, but dozens of young people are languishing on a waiting list.

  • Alex Crowe
South Melbourne Primary School principal Noel Creece and students.

Playtime without the playground: The view from Melbourne’s high-rise public schools

Nine high-rise public schools have sprung up across Victoria, and there are more in the works. Sharing parks and playgrounds with the community could be the key to making them work.

  • Alex Crowe
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How density might double: An artist’s impression of masterplans and rezonings finalised for TOD-accelerated precincts.

This Sydney school is full and turning students away – before 3255 new homes are built nearby

Just 10 years after a new north shore public high opened, it is over capacity.

  • Alexandra Smith
HSC science dux Yeshaya Ram, Chinese and French dux Thomas Collins, English ace Grace Costigan and Warren Song, first in extension 2 maths.

The HSC subjects in which more students get better marks

The HSC scaling report belies the notion that doing easier courses is the path to success. See how every course scales in our searchable list.

  • Cindy Yin
Haileybury Girls College student Jing Ru Zhang, 18, achieved a perfect ATAR score of 99.95.

Victoria’s best-performing private schools in 2024 VCE revealed

Haileybury Girls College, a consistently top-ranked VCE school, came in at equal seventh this year among the 50 best performers from the independent and Catholic sector.

  • Noel Towell
A student claims the school council has breached its duties under the terms of its charitable trust by planning to admit girls.

The boy who is suing his private school

The student alleges the school’s governing council contravened the terms of a 19th-century charitable trust by implementing its plan to admit girls.

  • Christopher Harris

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